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Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. ii. Vol. xix. p. 71. Ed. 1815. Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. ii. p. 532. Wooll's Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Warton. Plato de Republica, 1. v. 476. John Armstrong, the son of a Scotch minister, was born in the parish of Castleton, in Roxburghshire.
"They tell me t'was vastly clever. He wrote a great many plays, did not he?" "I have heard of only one attempt, Madam." "Oh no, I beg your pardon; that was Mr. Shakespeare; I always confound them." Wooll's Warton, p. 394.
'I have sung that wishing song a thousand times when I was young, and now find at fourscore that the three contraries have befallen me, being subject to the gout and the stone, and not being yet master of all my passions. Franklin's Memoirs, iii. 185. A passage in Wooll's Life of Dr.
This defect has probably been remedied by Mr. Todd's enlargement of the Dictionary. Wooll's Life of Joseph Warton, p. 230. The writers, besides Smart, were Richard Holt, Garrick, and Dr. Percy. Their papers are signed with the initials of their surnames. Johnson's are marked by two asterisks. See Hawkins's Life of Johnson, p.351. Miss Seward's letters, vol. i. p. 117.
She does not, however, hit on, or dwell on, that most cutting circumstance of all, poor Nanny's dying, as it were by our own means, tho' well intended indeed. Wooll's Warton, i. 289. Dr. See post, before Nov. 17, and under Dec. 9, 1784. 'The best men deserve not eternal life, and I who am the worst may have it given me. Ib. p. 431 'He that hath lived worst, even I. Ib. vii. 241.
Did you never see my head before my Thesaurus?" The Praepostors, learning the dignity of their visitor, in a most respectful manner showed him the College. Wooll's Life of Dr. Warton, p. 329. Mason writing to Horace Walpole about some odes, says: 'They are so lopped and mangled, that they are worse now than the productions of Handel's poet, Dr. Morell. Walpole's Letters, v. 420.
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